Karl Glogauer

Karl Glogauer is the protagonist of two novels by Michael Moorcock, and a secondary character in additional novels and short stories. In Behold the Man, he acts as a surrogate Christ after travelling to 28 AD in a time machine. The novel Breakfast in the Ruins contains a somewhat different Glogauer, centering on a homosexual love affair between him and an unnamed man from Nigeria. The chapters of the novel are interspersed with detailed, though fiction, fantasies about Glogauer's past lives.

Some of the aspects of Glogauer's childhood as described in Behold the Man are based on Moorcock's own childhood, though he says "I had such a happy childhood I had a hard time finding material, especially for the novel version". Likewise, Glogauer's frequent headaches were also inspired by migraines that Moorcock suffered from, although these were later discovered to be caused by an adverse reaction to nicotine rather than any psychological causes as in Glogauer's case ()

In Behold the Man, and at the start of Breakfast in the Ruins, Glogauer is white but by the end of Breakfast he has become black. (Similarly, Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius is white in The Final Programme but black in A Cure For Cancer.)

Other appearances

Karl Glogauer also makes appearances - or is mentioned - in the following books/short stories:

The English Assassin (appears)
The End of All Songs (appears)
The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius (comic strip) (appears - where he bears a remarkable similarity to Moorcock)
The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century (mentioned)
The Peking Junction (mentioned)
The Eternal Champion (mentioned)
The Condition of Muzak (reported that he was at the party with just about everyone else)

Michael Moorcock

Novels	The Fireclown (1965) The Jewel in the Skull (1967) The Final Programme (1968) The Mad God's Amulet (1968) The Sword of the Dawn (1968) The Runestaff (1969) The Black Corridor (1969) Behold the Man (1969) The Chinese Agent (1970) The Eternal Champion (1970) Phoenix in Obsidian (1970) Warlord of the Air (1971) A Cure for Cancer (1971) The English Assassin: A Romance of Entropy (1972) Breakfast in the Ruins (1972) The Land Leviathan (1974) The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century (1976) The Condition of Muzak (1977) Gloriana (1978) Byzantium Endures (1981) The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981) The Entropy Tango (1981) The Steel Tsar (1981) The Brothel in Rosenstrasse (1982) The Laughter of Carthage (1984) The Alchemist's Question (1984) The City in the Autumn Stars (1986) Mother London (1988) Jerusalem Commands (1992) King of the City (2000) Firing the Cathedral (2002) The Vengeance of Rome (2006) The Coming of the Terraphiles (2010) The Whispering Swarm (2015)

Collections	The Time Dweller (1969) The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976) The History of the Runestaff (1979) A Nomad of the Time Streams (1982) The Opium General and other stories (1984) The Metatemporal Detective (2007)

Comic books	Conan the Barbarian Michael Moorcock's Multiverse Tom Strong

Anthologies edited	England Invaded Before Armageddon

Characters and concepts	Corum Jhaelen Irsei Dorian Hawkmoon Deities in the Elric series Elric of Melniboné Eternal Champion Jerry Cornelius Karl Glogauer Lapis alectorius Law and Chaos Multiverse Stormbringer Symbol of Chaos Ulrich von Bek Melniboné Tanelorn

Music contributions	New Worlds Fair Warrior on the Edge of Time Sonic Attack Zones Live Chronicles Lucky Leif and the Longships Hype Cultösaurus Erectus Mirrors

Other work	Epic Pooh New Worlds

Adaptions	Airtight Garage The Chronicle of the Black Sword The Final Programme Stormbringer

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